UK Harper’s Bazaar April 2025 : Rihanna by Luis Alberto Rodriguez & Chimamanda Adichie by Emma Summerton

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If they hadn't been compelled to run the Rihanna story as part of the global deal, I wonder if we'd have seen Naomie Harris on the cover instead.

 

[aracic]

I love how both the British and French editions tease the 'comeback of a recording artist', when in fact the interview gives absolutely nothing new in terms of new music. But the power of clickbait titles works, because I did just go and read to whole thing... so yay for them, I guess.

 

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Chimamanda Adichie by Emma Summerton:

 

[Zorka]

GROW WILD
Photography: Erik Madigan Heck
Styling: Miranda Almond
Hair: Orlando Pita
Make-up: Francelle Daly
Model: Eniko Mihalik


UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition

 

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WITCHING HOUR
Photography: Emma Summerton
Styling: Leith Clark
Hair: Junya Nakashima
Make-up: Frankie Boyd
Models: Ansley Gulielmi & Libby Slaymaker


UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition

 

[aracic]

Girl gone wild!!

It is so true to to the magazine's strong identity that I can't help but respect it. Beautiful, easily digestible spring fashion photography.

 

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GRAND PROPORTIONS
Photography: Agata Pospieszynska
Styling: Charlie Harrington
Hair: Craig Taylor
Make-up: Natsumi Narita
Model: Veronika Kunz


UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition

 

[tigerrouge]

No print subscription copy yet, but looking at the digital one, it seems to be around 214 pages.

It greatly amuses me that the Rihanna cover deal with Hearst means UK Bazaar has been given a cover image they would never contemplate running with, if left to their own devices.

Inside cover ad campaign is Ralph Lauren.

None of the fashion editorials really grab me, but that's not what I use UK Bazaar for - I tend to save it for a weekend where I can tune out, and just look through the images and try to feel the light and the landscape and the fabrics, and what it would be like to wear the clothes. I never do that with UK Vogue - but I've actually bought things I've seen in UK Bazaar.

I find the 'speed' of the magazine's contents to be closer to how magazines used to be, before our attention spans got eroded by social media. It's not like there's immense depth to the images, but there's the sense they were created with print in mind, rather than optimised for the digital world as the foremost priority, which is what I get from UK Vogue. There's something more disposable about UKV's contents.